CALL FOR PAPERS - PACLIC 30

The 30th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

(PACLIC 30)

Seoul, October 28 - October 30, 2016

The 30th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 30) will be held at Kyung Hee University at Seoul on (Friday) 28 October – (Sun) 30 October 2016. The conference is co-hosted by the Korea Society of Language and Information, Kyung Hee University Institute of Study of Language and Information, and KAIST. The PACLIC series of conferences emphasize the synergy of theoretical analysis and processing of language, and provide a forum for researchers in different fields of language study in the Pacific-Asia region to share their findings and interests in the formal and empirical study of languages. Organized under the auspices of the PACLIC Steering Committee, PACLIC 30 will be the latest installment of our long standing collaborative efforts among theoretical and computational linguists in the Pacific-Asia region.

Topics include but are not limited to (in alphabetical order):

Language Studies:

Corpus linguistics

Discourse analysis

Language acquisition

Language learning

Language, mind, and culture

Language theory

Morphology

Phonology

Pragmatics/Socioligustics

Semantics

Spoken language processing

Syntax

Typology

Information Processing and Computational Applications:

Cognitive modeling of language

Dialogue and interactive systems

Digital humanities

Information retrieval/extraction

Language resources

Machine learning/Data mining

Machine translation

Multi-linguality in NLP

NLP applications

Sentiment analysis and opinion mining

Social media

Text classification/summarization

Word segmentation

Submissions should be written in readable and plain English and may be up to eight (8) pages long, including text, figures and tables, plus reference without page limit. For example, the main content, except the reference, of your paper takes the full 8 pages, and you have your reference part up to 3, or more pages.
Accepted papers will be presented in either regular sessions or poster sessions as determined by the program committee. Papers in the proceedings of PACLIC have been indexed in Scopus since PACLIC 19 (2005). They are also listed at ACL Anthology.

According to Google Scholar, PACLIC has h5-index of 8 and h5-median of 13; both numbers are higher than most language/linguistics related journals published in Chinese or Japanese. (the only one that is higher is 语言文字应用 Applied Linguistics published in China with h5-index of 10 and h5-median of 13).